High Tech Low Pay by Sam Marcy

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A Marxist Analysis of the Changing Character of the Working Class

Introduction by Fred Goldstein, author of Low-Wage Capitalism.

The scientific-technological revolution has vastly accelerated the continuous expulsion of more and more workers from the process of production, even in a period of so-called growth. No one knows what this economic situation will be once the economic cycle of development progresses, as it eventually will, from the so-called prosperous phase to crisis to economic collapse."—Sam Marcy High Tech, Low Pay 1986

This reissue of Marcy's classic on the impact of the high-tech revolution is most timely as capitalism experiences its biggest crisis since the 1930s. The revolution in technology analyzed here has made the crisis all the more precipitous and universal.

Marcy shows that changes in the social composition of the working class holds great hope for the struggle. The big influx into the workforce of people oppressed because of their national origin, sex, gender and immigration status brings a revived solidarity and militancy.

World View Forum, 154pp, index

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